TOE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 7, 1870. crxxuT or Tnn rxtxsa. Eaitwrlal Opinion f the leading; Jili Upow Current Tanlna ntplle4 Evftrr Day far thm Erenlac Telegraph. A NEW QUESTION WILL THE VIKGI- NIA3 BE 11EUNITED ? From (Ac If hfMng Intelligencer. The following paragraph appears In the Chicago Tribune:-- "Tue Richmond Stat Journal thinks the rennlon tf Virginia and Weil Virginia In one of the events that are castlnf their shadows before." The State Journal is the radical Republican organ at Richmond. As it ifc not on our ex change list, we hare not aeon the article aboTe alluded to. The following, however, we take from the Cincinnati Timet, which came to hand laat evening: The restoration of Virginia to her status In the t'nlon brings up a singular qnestlon for settlement. The Constitution (lisMnotljr declares that no State shall be divided without Its consent, and Virginia being now In the Union, the question Is raised whether the Htate of West Virginia haa a legal exist ence. Virginia has bad no existence aa a Htate since 1H61. If so. she can not have consented to tha divi sion of her territory, and hence It is argued that West Virginia hns no constitutional right to recognition as a Hi ate. The question of reunion la already being agitated. The restoration of Virginia does not, we think, bring up the question here indicated. Virginia was recognized as a State, by all de partments of the National Government, and was represented in the Senate, up to 1801. This was by virtue of the restoration of her government on a loyal basis here in 1801. In 18G2 the Legislature of Virginia, re cognized as such by the executive and legislative branches of the United States Government, consented to the division of the State. Her Govern ment had abdicated by engaging in the Rebellion, but those of her people adhering to the United States, resuming their original and inherent powers, met in this city, reor ganized the State, and chose Senators who were admitted to seats on the floor of the United States Senate. At the same time two Congressmen elected at the regular election, under the old State, in May, 18G1, held their eats in the lower house. The government of the State, thus restored on a loyal basis, was officially reoognized by the Tresidcnt and the deportments, as well as by both houses of Congress. What ever may have been done with irginia after wards, it is not to be denied that in every way whereby such a fact could be determined, it had been determined that the Legislature which consented to the division was the Legislature of Virginia. The question was effectually settled by the Supreme Court of the United States in the lthode Island decision, which was in effect that Con gress was the power on whom it devolved to determine what was a State government. Congress having reoognized the restored Government of Virginia, which consented to the division, it does not appear how it is possible ever to question the validity of that consent. . All the other steps in the process of division having been taken with the same sorapulous respect for the constitu tional provisions applicable to it, no one acquainted with the question or with the facts can doubt the Impregnable position of West Vircinia in the Union. Virginia herself is concluded from raising the question, for she reoognized West Vir ginia as a State in bringing suit for the reoovery of Berkeley and Jefferson counties; and in entertaining that suit the Supreme Court of the United States added its recogni tion of our Btatehood to that already given by the two co-ordinate branches of the National Government. It may be said that Virginia herself was not a State when she brought that suit, for it was under the pro visional government; but the Court, in enter taining it, expressed an opinion on the rela tions of the seceded States to the Govern ment which is of some value, as showing that a State may be a State in the Union even while not exercising its full powers and pri vileges. As to reunion, it can, of course, take place if the legislatures of the two States and Con- - gress severally consent. But if the question - is "agitated," it is somewhere else than in , West Virginia. No person here, so far as we , know, favors any such thing. Certainly no party is willing to avow any suoh wish or : purpose. ' But so far as concerns the validity of our State, it is impossible to raise any question about it, and equally impossible for any one : who is acquainted with the facts or principles involved to doubt it. Simple as is the whole question of the division of Virginia, it seems vain to hope that the newspapers abroad will ever understand it. t HOMICIDE IN SCHOOL. , Frm th N. Y. TrUnme. What which we have, with a painful conn- ; denoe, long anticipated, has come at last. In - November, 18(JJ, intne Bkinner benool, in ' Chicago, the teacher had a difficulty with a lad named Willie Atkins. This boy "had pre- ', viously been anected with a difficulty in the head, and was, therefore, entitled to the pa- tienoe and consideration of the teacher, who ; nevertheless undertook to flog him. A strug- gle ensued, in the course of which the boy s bead struck violently against a steam-pipe Since that time he remained unconscious ' and absolutely dumb, until, on the 28th of last month, death came mercifully to relieve ' him from present and future misery. This is a plain case of homicide justifiable, may be, by the maxim of Solomon we may call it . boy-slaughter in the sixth or sixteenth degree, but it is a killing, after all possible extenua tions. This question then arises: How often, in the discipline of a school, will it be neces sary to kill a boy? a question of decided in- 1 terest to parents, to guardians, and to the publio at large. How many such murders will committees allow annually to each sohool? In teaching the young idea how to shoot, how often will it be necessary to finally extinguish the voung idea, consigning it to cold obstruo '' - tion, and abandoning all chance of any fur lher "shooting altogether!" It is a little strange that the head of a child, being that part for the cultivation and development of which schools are said to be 1 established and maintained, should be the i Tary corporal locality against which teaohers , appear to entertain a peculiar spite thump ing it, dramming on it, cuffing it, and treating it aa if the skull were of cast iron riveted like a steam-boiler, and not of bone still in a pulpy tate. Upon this tender organ the passionate teacher advances with clenched fist, with open palm, with the oaken ferrule. He declares war against the medulla oblongata; he vents his spleen upon the cerebrum; he smites f ero elousiy tne cereoeuum, just as if. he were Lired by society to manufacture the .. . largest possible number of idiots in the small at possible time. He has so of Un declared 1 the cranial cavity of his viotim to be empty, i. and the cranial walls to be disgracefully thiok. that he plays his tattoo and reveille upon the ' dome of thought as if it were the bottom of a tin kettle. " Nothing is more handv than tha i head. A boy cannot put it into his pocket, as V lit puts his fist. There it is, a fair, open, and convenient mark for boxing, smiting, hitting, I cuffing, and with its ears always ready for an auxiliary pull. Boards of education are usu ally very timber-like, knotty, gnariea, ana cross-grained, and the Chicago board seems to be no exception to the wooden rule. Last November the cruelty praoticed upon this boy was officially brought before "tha boarders," and they solemnly resolved that "the charge of undue vlolenoe or unne cessary severity on the part of the teaoher was not established.'' Good heavens! will these Chicago Solons be obliging enough to tell what testimony and how much of it would have been "sufficient?" Here was a boy with his brain ruined, a child fallon into brute un consciousness, or something less, and here was also evidence that he was reduced to this piti ful condition through the passionate physical violenoe of the teaoher; and here, too, as if it were a coroner's jury sitting in a railway murder case, we are troatea to the everlasting droning verdict of "Nobody to blame r "Why mot ? Why, be cause "the boy had previously been affected with a difficulty In the head." Ergo, all boys "with difficulties in the head" may be pounded in that region without the slightest restraint; while, upon the other hand, it would be exceedingly wrong so much as to fillip any head happening to be perfectly healthy. We had no idea that the Dogberry breed was so far from being extinct. When we have thus a claim for peculiar tenderness metamorphosed into an excuse for unre strained severity, we begin to wonder what kind of heads it has pleased Divine Provi dence to bestow upon the Chicago Board of Education. We lay it down as a broad and general rule that a school-teacher who cannot manage his or her pupils without destroying their brains by physical' violence, is not fit for the businesi of education; and in these enlightened days would hardly be thought fit to drive a herd of cattle, or to be trusted witn tne care or norses. ltarey tamed Cruiser by kindness; school masters and mistresses tame little boys and cirls by a free use of the cowhide, which has been banished from all respectable stables. If a brutal driver should kill his steed by over driving or unnecessary blows, the courts of iustice would have something to say about it; but when teachers kill little boys, the bland Board of Education unanimously resolve that the victim invoked his own fate, and that no body else is to blame. In order that we may not be accused of injus tice to the teacher, or to any person who has been conneoted with this painful affair, we think it right to add that it has been con cluded with one of those ceremonials called a coroner's inquest, and that after hearing the testimony of a large number of dootors, the Iury found that the inflammation of the boy's i rain "arose from natural causes," and the teacher was "exonerated from all blame in tne matter. Ice fact. However, remains that a lad subject to brain disease was physi cally maltreated, and never spoke afterward. We leave the intelligent reader to draw his own conclusions. THE NEW PATROCLUS. From ths If. T. World. Such seems to be the late Mr. Edwin M, Stanton, and Judge Black is his Achilles. After moping in his tent for the lost Briseis for so we may symbolize Aita v eia tne son of Peleus springs to arms over the dead body of his friend, and slashes away fearfully in all directions. vvitn rnetono, terribly in cisive, he lacerates the Attorney-General; an ! as "hectoring" is, we believe, Mr. Hoar's specialty, he runs some risk of being dragged round the walls of our Troy. Judge .black would do it "with a will." The Judge's late letter, so fierce and unsparing, justifies this fear, lie has bad tne good taste and good sense, this time, to put his lucubrations at the disposal of the respectable press of the country, and thus secure its perusal by those whose good opinion, we are sure, he values, It is clever amazingly so. Judge Ulackm, as all bis literary efforts show, a very remark able writer, lie is exceptional in the com munity to which he belongs. The blight of rhetorical mediocrity has always rested on Pennsylvania; nor can one count a dozen clever writers whom she has produoed since the days of the founder, and he was not brilliant. It does not answer to "tutoyer on paper, and William Penn as a writer fell a victim to the second person singular. John Dickinson was from Delaware, we believe, rankiin was a Yankee, and Tom Paine an Englishman. If this be the rule in the past and the present, then is Judge Black clearly an exception; for no one can read the very sparkling letter in re Stanton without feeling him to be so. lie writes with an impulse whioh finds vent in vigorous words. He utters clearly his sympa thies, and more clearly his antipathies, Burkes great enitaDh on Dowdesweu all praise is less in his fine than Dr. Arbuthnot's on Colonel Chartres all satire. One of his aversions is a Puritan, and he loves to de nounce them as did South the apocalyptical pretenders of his day. It is the red flag to the mack bull, and he tosses lloar with unction. But we repeat the question, Why was not all this said and written before ? Why is it delayed till Mr. Stanton has followed most of the Buchanan Cabinet, and Mr. Buchanan himself, to the grave ? The slander or, to use a milder term, the fiction of the President and Cabinet trembling, like I ehx, before the Stanton St. Paul, is no new story. As far back as 18C2, Mr. Thurlow Weed, then driving his team of prelates in England, wrote it home, and it was printed; and there is, if we mistake not, extant a correspondence on this very subject between Judge Black and a dis, tinguished gentleman of this city which has never seen the light, aud which would be a better vindication of historical truth than those posthumous vituperations. President Buchanan is and always has been the person most inoulpated by this cruel slander. He sleeps in his silent grave at Wheatland, and no one nas a srord to say for him. "i nave some friends," says Judge Black, in his letter to Mr. Hoar, "whose reputation is deeply involved in the affairs you pronounce upon with so much confidence." Would not the preterite be better here than the present tense ? Who are the inculpated mends Judge Black hast He is the sole survivor of that scene, unless it be Holt, who craves no vindication at his vi a a a. ii nanas. we ao not at an wonder that, as the living one on whom this vile calumny, as it were, concentrates, he is indignant and gives utterance to his righteous resentment; but we contend that common duty to tha dead should prompt a wider vindication, and that Air. uactianan snouia do, as we do not doubt be can be, exculpated too. We have heard inougn ,oi tnis, an not witnin our direot knowledge, we speak cautiously that there is in the possession of the ex-l'resl dent's exeoutors ample evidence that neither Stanton nor Holt those two unhappy fruits of the Buchanan-Black incubation had any other feeling to their chief than that of affectionate and venerated regard. It is time that, while all this outside skirmishing- is going on, this, if it exists, should be given to the world. THE NAVY IN CONGHE3S NOBODY TO BLAME. ftm thr y. T. Timt. From the recent sharp discussions In Con gress it is clear that members, before voting new naval appropriations, wish to feel quite sure that the present bureau has renounced its predecessor and all its works. Suoh was the prodigious loss in construction during the eight years from 18G1 to 18t9. measured, indeed, by many millions, that this precau tion is perfectly justifiable. The late ingeni ous letter of ex-seoretary Welles ought to show that there is not much sympathy be tween the two; and yet we feel that the new bureau owes it to itself to show more fully why the new appropriations asked for are so large. There never yet has been a careful official review of the wasteful, and worse than wasteful, naval experiments of the two preceding administrations. Mr. Robeson's excellent report aia, inaeea, throw some light on the subject; but, probably out of official courtesy, the matter was there treated gingerly, and no actual exhibit of facts and ugures was given, wim toe stern, airect oom- ment added, "Thou art the man !" The Committee on Appropriations lately reported a bill for supplying deficiencies in the navy by the sum of $3,000,000, all of which was devoted to the two bureaus of Steam Engineering and "Construction and Repair." Those were each cut down by one- half in the juonse namely, to ?l,G00,000 In all and the bill, so reduoed, was passed. Why were these items cut down ? If we may believe the report of the disoussion, it was because members did not oonsidor that the larger sum would be properly expended. Perhaps they recall the enormous sums wasted on naval nondescripts daring the last ten years, and ask what there is to show for them. They turn to Secretary Welles' annual reports for eight years, and find that everything is right, and that our navy, espe cially the new wooden screw fleet, is the best in the world. They turn to Secretary Robe son's report, and find that the navy in March, 18G9, was almost a wreck, certainly not worthy of a second-class power, and our foreign squadrons such as, if attacked on their cruising stations by the superior war ships of other commercial powers, would be driven to seek the shelter of the monitors that guard our shores. But, for all that, so far as can be se'en from any official report yet made public, with all those millions spent, with a navy neglected, and, finally, left in great part ruined and wrecked, there is "nobody to blame. Congressmen want the mystery probed, and the hole into which old appropriations sank examined and explored. We have paid enough lor two good navies why are we without even one? Erroneous principles must be explained and formally renounced. At the end of the last Congresj a great outcry was made on account of alleged niaiconstruo tion in the navy, and a Board of Survey of civilian experts was proposed to guide future construction, and. more especially, the plan ning of steam machinery. What has become ' of the project for that board t we believe a clear and frank statement of just how many vessels had been spoiled, from 1800 to 1870, for the want of engineering skill, and what precautions had been taken to have no more engineering failures in the future, weuld en lighten Congress. 'I bat body, again, has made sundry objec tions to the appropriations for repair, and cut them down, borne of these objections were not a little shrewd and sound at core, if ex travagant in expression as, for example, that of Mr. washburn, who "expressed his belief that most of the vessels proDosed to be re paired were utterly worthless as war vessels," and that of Air. Liouran, who thereupon added, "that is exactly what they are old tubs." The fundamental objection seems to be this, that the members do not comprehend exactly what the proposed repair work is. and whether it will be of any use, even if it be furnished. They evidently regard it as something like repairing forts, planned on the idea of twenty years ago, and now super seded. They do not see why it is that ships on which so muoh has been expended, should be forever tinkered. As a matter of fact, we believe that a considerable part of the money recently expended has been in order to give to ships made to cruise only under steam, suitable sailing powers. Regarding some of these, it seems probable that reconstruction of their motive powet will pay by reason of the coal saved; regarding others, we fear that their bulky machinery is mainly fit for the scrap heap. 'lhe "Bureau of Construction and liepair. which asked for appropriations, is really composed of two branches, by its title, and perhaps the union is confusing to some Con, gressmen. 1' or it has long been evident that naval construction is not the proper duly of the Government, since it can "be done much more cheaply, promptly, and skilfully in pri vate yards and shops, lhese Utter are in constant competition with each other, and secure the best talent and skilled labor. Their planning is rarely or never the abortive stuff to which the Government planning has long accustomed us. Mindful of this fact, it is possible that sometimes Congressmen take an unjust prejudice against the bureau in question from its very name. We say unjust, because, on the oontrary, repairing is the proper duty of Government, and it can be done more deliberately, economically and effectively by the appliances at their com mand than by private means. All that is needed is the assurance that the repairing facilities shall not be misused for carrying out any special engineering vagaries, but shall be guided by the ordinary approved principles in the line of work. That quite enough repair ing is needed to uso up the sum appropriated is evident. lbat secretary Kobeson is vigor ously getting the navy into better condition is obvious. But we believe Congress would have been more liberal had it known pre cisely how ruinous had been our former fail ures in construction, ana naa it seen tne clear evidence that similar failures had been made impossible in the future. CONGRESS IMPORTANT MEASURES PENDING BEFORE THE TWO IIOUSE3. FromtUN. Y. Herald. There are various measures of general im portance pending before each of the two houses. In the Senate on Friday the House bill for the total abolition of the franking privilege in all its ramifications was discussed, The Western Senators were anxious to amend iti especially in reference to the country newsnaner press. They appealed for the re storation of the twenty miles free transporta tion in the mails to the newspapers of the rural districts as really necessary to proteot them against the widening circulation of the great city dailies.1 We think it likely, too, that the protection asked will be given; but we are half inclined to suspect that these amendments are slyly intended and may pos sibly operate to defeat the bill between the two houses. Against any such designs or tendencies we would advise the friends of the measure that the Congressional privilege , of fraDking books, pamphlets, speeches and let ters by the ton, to Buy nothing of f anoy goods and presents of various descriptions, has be come a burden upon the publio mails whioh must be removed. - - . . The Senate bill expanding the currency of the national banks to the extent of forty-five millions for the benefit of the South and West (short of ourrency) is before the House Committee on the snbjeot; but why the Trea sury should be called upon to pav two or three millions in interest lor this t "crease of paper meney, when it can be saved by issuing green backs instead of national bank notes, is a question for serious consideration, as, indeed, is the main question, why should the Treasury pay twenty or thirty millions, more or less, for this national bans: currency in preference to greenbacks upon which this interest can be saved? It is apparent, however, that the national banks are part of the Republican programme, and that nothing short of a De mocratic onsiaugnt upon them, like that or General Jaokson against "Biddle's Monster, " will shake them. The Funding bill reported to the Senate from the Finance Committee is a measure embodying some of the praotioal financial views of the administration. Southern reconstruction has been settled by the House bill (the same as the Virginia bill; for the admission into Congress of the State of Mississippi. Texas, in her turn, will doubtless be admitted upon the same terms, and then there will be an end of military governors and the Union will be re-established. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the Constitution clinch the work done; but there may be, during the pre sent session, a general law passed for the en forcement oi tnese amendments with speoial reference to Delaware, Maryland, and Ken tucky, where negro equality in the matter of civil and political rights is not yet reoognized. These three of the slave States, in short, not having been officially involved in the Rebel lion, have escaped Congressional reconstruc tion, and have progressed very little beyond the thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery. A bill from Congress that will wake them up may, then, be looked for. The Mormon bill introduced in the House by Mr. Cullom and recommitted to the Terri torial committee is cieany intended as a warning to Bngham Young, with its sweep ing pains and penalties of disfranchisement, outlawry, nnes and imprisonments against Mormon concubinage, bigamy, Bnghamy, polygamy, spiritual wifery, or whatever else that saintly institution of a plurality of wives may be called, and the great high priest and Erophet of the saints will do well in patting is house in order for a timely evaouation. Wo have no idea that it is the intention of the two houses of Congress to rush this bill through; but we do believe that its design is a timely warning to Brigham Young that he must make up his mind to dispense with poly gamy or abandon Utah. The Uentiles, by the 1'acino itaiiroad, are crowding around him; and the day is fast approaching when nothing but the protection of Congress will save him and his people. To secure the pro tection of Congress, the Mormon ruler must come to an agreement either to leave the United States with his congregation or to abandon polygamy under a new revelation, This, we believe, is the warning intended by Air. cuiiom s bill The House passed a bill on Friday for the temporary relief of the poor of the District of Columbia, instructing the Secretary of War to issue rations for this relief. The destitute poor of Washington and Georgetown, which make up the district, are chielly the negroes drifting into those cities in consequence of the war. Thus at least twenty thousand des titute blacks have been added to the popnla tion of Washington, and as they cannot be permitted to starve, and as the city is not re sponsible lor them, congress must feed them till otherwise provided for. we think, how, ever, that, . instead of being encouraged in idleness and vice, it would be well to provide for shipping off these negroes to some publio works or to some oi the .southern plantations. where their labor is wanted, and where these vargrants may be turned to good account, In short, there must be a period fixed for this feeding of bam bo in idleness on Government rations, and the sooner the better it will be for him, even in Washington WILL MR. nOAR STAY IN THE CABINET? From the X. Y. Sun. The Senate has finally rejected the nomi nation of Air. lloar as a Justice of the Su preme Court. The vote stood 83 to 24. Will Mr, lloar remain in the Cabinet? It said that he will do so. This means, doubtless, that he will not resign on aocount of the unfriendly action of the Senate. He will remain as long as General Grant finds it convenient to keep him. Of course he will not stop a moment after he has received from the President an intimation that his resigna tion would be agreeable. is it likely that General urant will wish to keep him much longer? We judge not. It is not in the nature of the cose that Massa chusetts should have two members of the Cabinet for any great length of time. General Grant undoubtedly understood this when he appointed Mr. Hoar. He made him Attor- ney-ueneral with the purpose of soon trans ferring him to some other place. In the original composition of the Cabinet, as it was first designed to be made up, Mr. Hoar did not figure. The place of Attorney-General was then intended lor Mr. llliam II. Wads- wortn, oi Kentucky, a scnooimate and crony of Ulysses 8. in his younger days. This ap pointment was prevented Dy the earnest op position of gentlemen who were then very in timate and influential with the appointing power; but Mr. Wadsworth wos brought to Washington in other official relations never theless, and is now on hand there all ready a ll All 1 to step into tne Attorney-uenerai s office whenever it is thought expedient to put him there General Grant will not wish to contend with the Senate to keep Mr. Hoar in an office to which he unwillingly appointed him. He knows that his administration has weakness enough in its possession of a Spanish Secre tary of State, and in its pursuance of , a Spanish policy towards Cuba, without en cumbering itself with any avoidable anarrels. We presume, then, that he will make a virtue of what he has desired to do from the begin ning, and that at an early day Mr. Hoar will retire from the Cabinot, and Mr. Wadsworth who has made himself more popular in wasmugiun uiku uu uneu to tie will .be nominated to the Senate as Attorney-General. WANT8. TO TUB WORKING OLABH-W. mxi now pre! paa u lurnma an citutii wim eouatant emptor DitiDt at home, tha whole of tba tiuia or fur tha aD&ra momenta. Uiuineaa new. light, and urotiUble. Feraon of either eex eaailj earn from 6uo. to ( per evaning, aoil a frooruoDfti turn vj aeroiing uieir whole tuna to the inamena. Hoja aid gir earn nearly aa much a men. 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The Annual F.laotlon for DiroeWa wlU be held on MONDAY, the 7th day of March, 1870, at the Offloe of tha Oornpeny, Ho. B8 8. THIRD Btreet. lKXw JOSKrH LK8I.KY, Beoretary. OFFICE OF THE HELiYIDEKE MAJHU- Hai.vine.Ra. W. J.. Dee. K 1MB Wntlft le herehv riven to the etmkholriinl of the ItKTc V I V K K K M A N U A UTU RI N (i 0 ) t r A H V repwt.l mr that aMeexraenta amounting to SIXTY PICK clKNTUM of the capital atnek of eaid oompany have been made and payment of the eame eailea rov on or oeiore tne amnio day of February, A. D. 1H70, and that payment of tuoh a proportion of all enma of money by them an baa rl bed le called for and demanded from them on or before the laid Iij nrner of lhe uoera or inremnre. 12 28 ttw 8. btrKKRKRD, Secretary. jgy- OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAL AND TRRAHTTRT JJBPAHTMKWT, I 1H70.1 Oertlfloatee of the Mortgage Loan of thia Uoi . i iijAiinui-niA. u Huin i . i mpany. their legal representative, on presentation at thia oAoe on and after that date, from whioh time interest will oeaee. 8. HUEP11KRO. 1 11 mwIISt Treaaurer. T PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL KUAU UU., Offloe, No. 127 8. FOURTH Btreet. PuiLinKLPiru. Deo. IB, 1898. DIVIDEND NOT1UK. Tbe Tranaf or Book of the Oompany will be eloeed on FRIDAY, the Mat InaUnt, and reopened oa TUKSDAT January 11, 1870. A dividend of FIVE PER OKNT. hag been declared en the Preferred and Common Stock, dear of National and State taiee, payable in CASH, on and after January 17, 1870, to the boldere thereof aa thayahaU etand registered on the booka of tbe Company on the Slat Instant. AU payable at thia offioe. Ail orders for dividend most be Witneaeed and stamped. & BRADFORD. U 83 6Ut Treaanmr. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS, TI1E CHESAPEAKE AND DFXAWARR OANAL will be oloaed, for repair to a look, on MONDAY MORN ING, the 7th of Febrnary, 1870, and opened for navigation in a few day thereafter, dne notice of whioh will be given. HENRY V. LESLEY, Secretary. Philadelphia, Jan. 87, 1870. 1 87 dtiaF tSy HE WAS ARRESTED. -THE YOUNO man who determined to eeiae the flrat thing that turned tip baa been arrested for pulling another man' nime. i nia mile joa la only aesignea to arrest the atten tion of our read era to the eolendid (MJAL aold bv J. O. HANUOOK. northwest oornerof NINTH and MAHTRR. All tbe moat deeirable varietiee of Lebigh and hohnylkill are to be bad of Air. Haaoock, carefully eoreened and pioaeo. 1 1 wamOw BRANCH OFFICE REPUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CHIOAOO, N. R. corner FIFTH and WALNUT Street. A Heml-annual Dividend of FIVE PER CENT, baa been declared by the Directors, and ia now payable at thia omce. Ddiiiar., ai,l,j.n luuu.r.s, Managers. SSthsmBt Branoh Offloe Repuhlio Fire Ina. Co. BtSST THE PARIIAM SEWING MAGIHNE Company' New Family Bewlog Maohinea are moat emphatically pronounoed to Da that gi long and anxiously looked for, in whi treat destderatnm ao bioh all the essential of a perfect maohine are combined. lit No. 704 CHKSNDT Street. ggy QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, CAPITAL. i?i,0UU,UOl. BAB INK, ALLF.N A DULLFR,Agei FIFTH and WALNUT Bti into. treat. t?- COLD WEATHER DORS NOT CHAP OONATKD ULYCKRINR TABLET OF SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE. Iudallvnae make the akin delioately .1 L. . . 1 W II J. !- ornniKuoo tne sain arter nsirur -r r 1 1 n in si. K. A O. A. WRIGHT, 8 4 No. M OHKSNUT Btreet fy- COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION uriKiiinifju tun DunmtuHiiD dim ui NITROUS OX IDE. OR LAUOHINO OAS. And devote tboir whole time and praotioo to extracting teeth without pain, Office, F1UH 1'H and WALNUT Street. 118 f- DR. F. K. THOMAS, THE LATE OPE rator of the Colton Dental Association, ia now tha cmiyonmxa miiadeipma who devote hi entire time and practice to extracting teem, absolutely witnout pain, by irosn nitrona oxiae gaa. umoe. v ll w aiaKI u a ck Im t- BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE. TIII3 splendid Hair Dye is the best in the woJld. Harm lesa, rename, instantaneoua, doe not contain lead, nor any mlalie poison to produce paralysis or death. Avoid the vaunted and delusive preparation boasting virtues tney no not possess. 'J he genuine VV. A. Batcbelors Hair Dye baa had thirty years untarnished reputation to up bold it integrity aa the only Per'eot Hair Dye Black or mown, noin oy all JJrugnibts. Applied at Mo. 18 BLIND Dircet, IMew XorK. 4tl7mwf nELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCIIU AND Improvkd Robr Wash cure all delicate disorder in all their stages, at little expense, little or no change in diet, and do inconvenience. It ia ule&aant in ta,n and odor, immediate in it action, and free from all injurious BiSr IIELMBOLIVS CONCENTRATED EX. TRACT BUOHTT ia tha Great THnratin Hr u hold's Concentkatkd Kxtbaot Hahhapahilla is the Great Blood further. Both are prepared acoordlug to rules of Pharmacy and Chemistry, ana are the most active mat can De niaue. l utj B9" FOR NON-RETENTION OR INCON tinunce of Uiine. irritation, inflammation, or nlnara. tion of the bladder, or kidney, disease of the prostate gianoa, atone in tne Diaaaer, oaicuius, graroi or Dnoav ouat aeposits, ana an aiseasea or tne Diaaaer. kidney and dropsical swellings, use UELMBOLD'tl FLUID K) 1KAOTBUOHU. 1111 Bgy- HELM BOLD S EXTRACT BUCHU give health and vigor to the frame and bloom to tne pallid cDeok. XJetiiiity Is accompanied by many alarming symptoms, anu, ii no treatment lasuumittoa to, consumption, insanity, or epiicptio nta ensue. 1 18 ENFEEBLED AND DELICATE CON Btitutinns. of both soxes. nse HKLMHOLD'H EX TRACT BUtmU. It will give brisk and energetic feet inga, ana enable yon to Sleep wen. I sit Br3?- TnE GLORY OF MAN IS STRENGTH, Therefore tbe nervous and debilitated should im. mediately nse uklmiiold'h kxthact bucuu. 1 114 MANHOOD AND YOUTHFUL VIGOR regained by UKLM ISOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU jjgy IIELMBOLD 8 FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU is pleasant in taste and odor, free from all injurious properties, ana itnmeuiate in Its action. 1 ID 1ST TAKE NO MORE UNPLEASANT AND nnsale remedies for unpleasant and dangerous di. enses Use HELMIlOLOJ'B EX1KA.CC BUOHU AND Iall'UUVKD KohB Wabh. 128 SHATTERED CONSTITUTIONS KE muru v iiEi.mnuLu n dai bah a duunui 128 WINES AND LIQUORS. H E R MAJEST CHAMPAGNE. DunTOia- di Lusson. 215 SOUTH FRONT STREET. TBE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE 13 X aolioited to the following very Ohoioe Wine, etc, for sale uy . .. vufliun at Luanuil, Sit BOUTU FRONT BTREET. CHAMPAGNES. Agent for her Maieat. Dne d Montobello, Carte Bleue, Carte Blanobe, and Charts Farre'a Urand Vin Eugenie, and Vin Imperial, M. Klee tnsn A Co.. of Maranoe. boarklina! lioaalla and RHINE W1NE8. . W aiikikab. Old laiand, Booth Bide Reeerre. bHERRlKH. F, Rndolphe, Amontillado, Topaa, Yak letie. Vale and Golden Bar, Clown, a to. PORTS.-Vinho Velho Real. VaUette, and Orown. n CLARETS. Promia Aina A Oi.. MonUerrand and Bor deaux, Clarets and 8autern Wine I utn. "Meaer Bwau." . . BRANDIEHHenneaaey. Otard. Dupuf Oa' various vintagea. QA It STAIRS M O A L L, Mo, laa WALNUT and M GRANITE Street Importer of BRANDIES, WINKS. GIN. OLIVE OIL, ETO., AMD COMMISSION MERCHANTS For th sal of I PUKE OLD BYE. WIUWyAMD BOURBON WHIN- CAKSTAIKS'oTlVE OIL AN INVOICE of the above for aale AHgTAIRg 4 MoOALU IMfe4 NofclMWAIJiUTandalORA-MiTKau. w riLLIAM ANDERSON A CO., DEALERS Flaw .. - . -rvr, H. . PlAuadelpU 8HIPPINCU LORILLARD STEAM3IIIP - - LIH8 FOB NEW Y O XI It. RTJWNIWQ RKOCLART.Y KTKRT TUE8DAT,THURS DAT, AND SATURDAY, AT NOON, would oall attention of shipper to toi SPECIAL NOTICE. 4a1 rent Reduction of Rates. On opening of Rprlng navigation the (teaman of this lin will tan DAILY, at I cent per 100 lbs., I oents pec foot, or H cent per gallon, chip' option. JOHN F. OHL, No. NORTH WHARVES. N. B. Extra rate oa email paokagsalron, metal, eta. to, 14 'Jf .5 AnrOUL ANN 0 I 11 Vwrs-a.. r 'fSyl,KK"TOWl;. Inman uDe of Malt i ' . - rrwuM w aail a fol- t. ."l7!iMt1."i' T"aa. Feb 8. at 11 A. M. Sf 21 Eltlm". Heturday, Feb. 10, at 8 A. M. ?wT 1 K"w, Y2rk- " Hllfx, Tuesday, Feb. 23. 10 A. U. City of Parla, Saturday, Feb. in, at 1 K at, And aaeh aneaeartlw Hfc,-l 1.1. . n , . fn Pier ii. North krverT ' XtA'l K OF TAHSAOIB. JIT THg f ATI, rrgAMXB tAlUNO EVKHT iATrmnAT. Parable in tlttlA T v. i i , , FTRtrf CABlN.......fJlnO I 8TRKRAGE .T..r.M 10 Jondon. ins To London 40 To Paria 1 16 To Paris .....ii PASHA!! BY TH THUSAI tlaAHKB, VIA HALIFAX. CAH1M. TV,KBA(HI. Pav&bl In IIaIH V. . i - j , laWSC . . ..T.T.T. 901 LlverT $M Halifax. go Halifax . ....... .V..V..V.V, 5 Bt. JoJin'a, W. F., I 8t. John'. N. F.. f oy nranon steamer.... I by Branoh Rtearaar... .( FasHenaera also forward ad tn u- u.k to , at reduced ratee. . Tickets can be bousht bare at moderate rate by person wishing to aend for their friend, Jfor further particulars apply at tbe Oompany' OAoe. - O'DONNFI.LA FAULK, Agenta No. M OHKSNUT Street. Philadelphia. jv ONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE -fffn?2 r-r 'TS4" COMPANY'S M ATT. htka uSuiia BKKSf: The tlendld new vessels on this favorite route for the K I kKN NI Hisr VlID If IHnuirnl, . VV . baturday. --. , ,m, erer. PVtnc rvv VIA Illn. in (old (Intruding wine). TO BKJCNT OR HAVRE, First Cabin 140 1 Heoond Cabin ( . (Including railway tickets, furnished on board.! Th ' X ,U 1 8eoon1 cb'n i. . . 'j -,t"t. v passenger. Medical at tendance free of eharge. AuioniTan travellers going to or returning rroni wis oon tinentof Enrope, by taking the steamers of this line avoid unnecessary risks trout transit by English railway and crossing the channel, besides saving time, trouble, and est Pne. OKORUK MACKENZIE, Agent. , No. M BROADWAY. New York. Trwa -, eaaa aa M 1n,tl. J.IUi. i .a a '----. A-wAwuoAjvniew, ppi.r auauns rixprfMS OwipMij, to H. U LHAJL. l MO. 830 GHE8NUT 8 (ami. nvrtiil WliKMAN LLOYD TMi1f ww-awsra. " " ii3 btkam BKTWKKN NEW YORK AND JT BREMEN, VIA SOUTHAMPTON Okumam Ll)YD ran retmlarly boiwMii New York, Hr. men, and Hoothampton, carrying the UniUd States, Kojr liBh, and ('ont.nntvl mail. VUAU DUbUL u nTrnnv . . FROM bOUTHAM PTO'nV. ". "V. EVERY TUESDAY vA. v it a s a. iv i.tai.1 OA l UKLfAx lUce f lU-ayfrm Af Ymk to Arm. London, Havre First Cabin, $120 ; Seoond Cabin, $72 Steerage, $30, Gold. from Urmm to A'mo York: First Cabin, $120; Seoond Oabih., $72 : Steerage, $40, Gold. These vessels take Freight to London and HulL for Which through bills of lading are signed. a viperienueu surgeon is attacnea to eacn vessel. All letters must Daaa tbrounh tha Fiat rittina. No Bills of Lading but those of the Company will be signed. Bills of lading will positively not be delivered biriore goods are cleared at the Custom House. Specie taken to Havre, Southampton, and nremen at the lowest rate. t'r freight or passage apply to . OKLR10HS A CO.. 1 lTt No. 88 BROAD Street. N. T. PHILADELPHIA. RTriTT MHTJTi AM NOHFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE. fctHK SOUm AND WEsfr At . KVICKt HATURDAY, Street ' K1R8T WliAKJf MARKET THROUGH RATE8 to all point In North arid South Carolina via Beaboard Air Line Railroad, oonneoting at Pprtwnout h, and to Lvnohburg, Va.. Tennessee, and the rn?b.Vvn.mrn:i 1 enn"- A" Lin "d Tbe regularity, aafety.and cheapness of till ronte oom mend it to tbe publio aa the most desirable medium for carrying every deeuription of freight. No charge lor oonuniation, drayage. or any expense of transfer. Steamships insured at the lowest rate. Freight received daily. WILLIAM P. OLTDK ft OO , No. IS H. WHARVES and Pier 1 N. WH ARVE8. W. P. PORTER. Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. PRO WELL A CO.. Agent at Norfolk 6 It Sw IV W .11 1 ttV LJ ST5 FLORIDA. VIA SAVANNAH. TRI. tt T n jr fn a tt v jta,t nt WEEKLY LINK. a! The fnllnwins it.im.M vttl Charleston tor Florida, via Savannah, three times a wenlr. after arrival of the New York steamship and the North eastern Railroad train: PILOT BOY (Inland Route), every SUNDAY MORN ING at 8 o'clock. DICTA TOH, every TUESDAY EVENING at 8 o'olock. CITY POINT, every FRIDAY EVENING at 8 o'olock. Through tickets to be bad of all Charleston and Savan nah Steamship Line Agencies in New York. J. D. AIKEN A CO., Agents at Cbarlostoo. L. J. GU1LMAKTIN A CO., 1 i Agents at Savannah. FOR 8T. THOMAS AND BRA ZIL united states and brazil MAIL STEAMSHIP OOMPANY. Reinllar Mai) KImiti.,. uilin. nn fh. ot every month : MKKH1MACK. Captain Wier. SOUTH AMERICA, Captain E. L. Tlnklepangh. NOR'i II AMERICA, Captain G. B. Bloouui. These splendid steamers sail on schedule time, and oall at St. Thomas, Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Bio de Janeiro, going and returning. For engagement of freight or passage apply to 14 No. 5 BOWLING GREEN. New York. WM. K. MAKK1MIKI, Agent, .T?wj THM HRfiM WPT.T. MVR! f Steamships of this Line will leave Pier IaTUkoaTs. U M,l, -. U ' I b V AI nn .GEORGE WASHINGTON, Gager. MARIPOSA, Kemhle. 1 Freight taken for St. Louis, Mobile, and Galveston at through rattta. Cabin passage, $60. For paaaage (first and second class) or freight apply to JJ, b. CKOMWKLL A CO., 14 ; No. bo WEST Street. f? U. 8. MAIL TO HAVANA. ATLANTIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., j.V aailing regularly EVERY THUUSDAx ml35Liriie at S o'olock P. M., preoieely, from Piec No. 4 North River. - MOKO CASTLE, Captain R. Adam. COLUMBIA, Captain E. Van Sioe. EAGLE, Onptain M. II. Greene. For freight or passage apply to " B?G. VM1KELKR, Jb., President, li No. 6 BOWLING UREEN, New York. fc NEW EXPRESS LINE TO AleAndrla. fltfirffiitAvn. And VuhinMin. T 0.. via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, with oouuectiona at Alexandria from the moat direot route for Linchburg, Bristol, Knox villa, Nashville, Dal too, and th Bouthwest, Steamers loave regularly every Saturday at soon from the flrat wharf above Market stieet. """'"'VlLI.IAM P. CLYDE A OO. No. H North and South wharves. HYDE A TYLER, Agents, at Georgetown; M. KLDR1DQK A CO., Agents at Alexandria. 61 NOTICE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA Delaware and Raritan Canal. BWI1-TSURH TR A NSPORTATION COMPANV.nKM. a LCU AND SWIFT'SUKK LINK. Tbe busmese of these line will be resumed oa and after the Nth of March. For freight, which will be taken oa accommodating term, Apply to W. M. BAIRD A CO., 1 W!8 South Wbsrvoa. OLOTHS, OASSIMERES. ETO. JAMES & H USER, Successor! to JAME3 It LEO, No. 11 North 8GVO.Hl Street, feign of tbe Goldeu Lamb, Are oow elusion out their entire ato k of "W" i II t O I' Car O O tl H, ronsUllng of CLOTUS, CASHIMKKKH, VEST IMGH, etc., of the best inakus anil floest teimre, which thejare Rttlliug fur bolow Importers' prices, preparatory to tlie receptiou of their bl'iUNG STOCK OF GOODS. g ii uiwi COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, of all number and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk, and Wkgon-onver Duck. Also, Paper Manufacturer' liner Felts, from thirty to aeveaty-aiz luobee, with Pantin.. Wllng. Bail Twine, rto KyKRMA lUS OliULCU htrset (City Store.
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